I figure the company will want even more "in return" if we were to hold our ground on MLK Day as opposed to settle for another discretionary day which gives people who really want MLK Day off the option to get it with pay
A possible MLK Holiday Solution?
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PT Car Washer
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The reason I take 4th of July as vacation week.
Thebrownblob
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Thebrownblob
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You could be right, but the company might look pretty bad denying both Martin Luther King day and Juneteenth. Your idea is fine as well I’m just saying they might not like the publicity of not giving one of those two days at least, we shall see.
Argh... Now you're getting silly with what I intended to be a constructive conversation on how we can best accomodate competing needs
PT Car Washer
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You could be right but in my part of the country no one knows what Juneteenth is and MLK birthday is a banker Holiday.
Thebrownblob
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I have to admit, I really didn’t know much about Juneteenth until a couple years ago. Obviously, everyone knows about MLK day.
UnionStrong
Sorry, but I don’t care anymore.
It’s a stupid holiday no one ever heard of.
I don't think there is a perfect answer here.
I grew up and live in a community where there is a significant Jewish population, so we didn't have school on Rosh Hashanah or Yom Kippur which the school board just made "vacation days" because they felt it was too much trouble to have class with like 25% of the students absent.
I think it is conceivable that MLK Day could evolve into as important a national holiday as something like Labor Day, but I don't think we've reached that point yet as a society, so that is why I am figuring an extra discretionary day is a better solution for everyone involved
Holidays seem to fall in one of three categories...
Major national holidays: New Year, Memorial Day, 4th of July, Labor Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas...Transit systems run on Sunday schedules
Other national holidays: MLK Day, Presidents Day, Columbus Day, Veterans Day... Transit systems on weekday schedule, schools, banks and government offices closed
State and Local holidays: Lincoln's birthday here in Illinois... Transit systems on weekday schedule, schools closed
Now those are among the really big issues on which I believe the Teamsters need to stand their ground.
If I was a gambling man I would wager that injuries would be reduced by cutting down on the overtime and that it would ultimately be in the financial interests of UPS to do just that
542thruNthru
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If someone really wants MLK day they can already use a discretionary day. The point is no one wants to have to use a discretionary day for a holiday they believe they should already be off.
I have NOT been lurking
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Show you took the vaxx
rod
Retired 22 years
Especially Veterans
DriveInDriveOut
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Good Friday over Juneteenth?
SMH, obviously you are an extremist white christian nationalist maga republican.
Come on guys, don't be bigots, we need to fight for both MLK and Juneteenth days as paid holidays.
govols019
You smell that?
To be honest, I'm not entirely sure what Juneteenth even is...first I'd ever heard of it was when they brought it up in negotiations... something to do with slavery is all I know.
I'm cool with MLK day as long as we don't give up a different holiday...seems to me that more business are off on Good Friday than MLK day.
govols019
You smell that?
I've never taken a vacation week that had a holiday fall during it...always felt like I was losing a day off.
UnionStrong
Sorry, but I don’t care anymore.
The union soldiers arrived in Galveston Tx. and told the slaves the war was over and that they were free. That was on June 19th, 1865. Now you know.
